I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.

Mirrors are useless for reflecting who you are.

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, I would say.

Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

If Bernie Sanders hasn't been able to draw a contrast with Hillary Clinton, why is he doing so well, a guy - most people never heard of this fellow before this year.

Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health.

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

There are no accidents in Nature.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.